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WorksheetsFrench Revolution First Half Quiz
Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 52mins
The First Estate was made up of this group.
Clergy
Common People/Peasants
Nobles
The Second Estate was made up of France's -
Clergy
Commoners/Peasants
Nobles
The Third Estate was made up of these people.
Clergy
Nobles
Commoners/Peasants
Royalty
What do these pie charts reveal about the causes of the French Revolution?
All the estates were taxed equally
The upper classes paid the most taxes
The poorest classes paid all the taxes
The third estate was the wealthiest
Most of the people of France belonged which Estate?
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
4th Estate
Why was voting in the Estates General unfair?
Votes were not secret.
Each estate voted by how many members there were meaning the 3rd Estate got more votes.
Each estate got the same number of votes.
The King got two votes.
When the other Estates refused to change voting rules the 3rd Estate what happened?
Met separately.
Declared themselves the new government.
Created the National Assembly.
All of the above
Who was Louis XVI?
Leader of Reign of Terror.
King of France when the French Revolution begins.
Became Emperor of France.
The Pope.
XVI is the number?
14
15
16
13
Kings during this time believed that they had the right to lead for what reason?
Divine Right
Protestant Reformation
Age of Enlightenment
Because their bloodlines were more stronger and more important.
% of people in the 1st Estate?
1%
2%
97-98%
None of these
% of people in the 2nd Estate?
1%
2%
97-98%
None of these
% of people in 3rd Estate?
1%
2%
97-98%
None of these.
What was the Bastille used for?
For storing weapons.
housed the French King
A prison or fortress
a Church
For storing weapons and a prison/fortress.
The Storming of the Bastille is considered the starting point of what major historical event?
American Revolution
World War I
Hundred Year's War
French Revolution
Napoleonic Wars
How many prisoners were freed from the Bastille?
7
20
50
17
What was also stored in the Bastille that the revolutionaries needed and took for the cannons and muskets they stole?
Grain
Gunpowder
Swords
Cannon
Which French Social class stormed the Bastille?
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
Upper Estate
What was the Estates-General?
A group that was made up of 1 representative from all 3 estates.
Group that ruled France after the Reign of Terror.
Name of the 3rd estate after they broke away.
A radical group.
the king and queen's lavish spending
The 4th of July is to America as _____________ is to France.
French Independence Day
Bastille Day
Waterloo Day
National Assembly Day
A government in which the people have power in a direct way or through representatives who they elect
Social
Democracy
Citizen
Clergy
The machine used to execute people by beheading them during the French Revolution.
Guillotine
Blockade
Bastille
Directory
A city located within France. Also, where the king of France moved his palace to?
St. Catherine
Versailles
Birmingham
Kingston
A person wanting extreme and immediate change.
Delegate
Noble
Radical
Peasant
The act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
(a)
A meeting of the 3 estates of France to vote on new taxation laws.
(a)
The act of calling a meeting.
(a)
An unrestricted use of power.
(a)
The wife of Louis XVI.
(a)
An extravagant building that represented Louis XIV's lifestyle of wealth.
(a)
When people are made to pay a certain amount that is put on income, property of sale.
(a)
Incapable of being transferred or given to another.
(a)
